Did you ask for a review of your first video? My friend Charmain did and what I wrote is below. I was going to post her original YouTube embed code but rather embellished it and posted my version instead. Here are the comments I made...
Eisenhower Decision Matrix
"Hi Charmain, very nice video. Excellent use of space and timing. BUT, 560x315px is too small. I had a hard time reading it. So, I watched it twice. And focused harder on the words the second time." Recommendations:
- Buy a microphone and narrate the video. You can get a very good microphone for about $100. Adding a narration to a video instantly takes it to the next level. Plus you get to tell your viewers exactly what you want them to know. Without having to read all the small type.
- Use the largest size video on your website as will fit comfortably. YouTube will automatically make it responsive. Or you can do that in SBI. So no need to use small video sizes with small words when you can go big.
- Add a "?rel=0" tag to the tail of your file. This will stop YouTube from displaying other peoples videos on your endscreen.
- Very nice end screen. Or was that 2 end screens I saw? There was the "Thanks For Watching " screen, then a "Like and Subscribe" screen. You only need one endscreen and that should have a call to action on it. I like to entice the viewer to click on a followup link, or visit my website or have my contact info or something more than Thanks, Like and Subscribe. So, improve your endscreen is my advice.
- Move the video to the top 1/3 of the webpage. It should be above the fold or it can partially hang below the fold, but should be near the top of the page. This is basic video SEO.
Notice I added an H2 heading beneath the video. I do that for 2 reasons. To add space below the video so scrollers can get an idea before zooming past. And, to give a large title to the video. Because if your title is only the little title that YT puts on it then, you don't snow what the title really is. You didn't put the same title on the thumbnail as the YouTube name. so an H2 heading gives the video that title in a big unignorable font size.
Hop this helps
Tim
